Post Status Podcasts

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. WordPress 4.5 was just released, and comes backed with a lot of great new features. Some of our favorites have to do with the editing experience, but we go over all the new user facing features as well as under the hood bits of WordPress 4.5. We also dig into the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6, which is already underway. If you’ve been enjoying Post Status Draft, would you considering rating us in iTunes? We’ve never asked for it, but it would help tremendously! You can do so by going to iTunes, click “Ratings and Reviews” and leave a quick review. Thanks!   Links Brian's WordPress 4.5 Post WordPress 4.6 wishlist A Day of Rest is going to Boston! Sponsor This podcast is sponsored by WP101. The WP101 Plugin delivers a set of WordPress video tutorials right in your clients’ dashboard, freeing your time to do what you do best! They also just released a great 22 part course on WooCommerce that you should definitely check out. Thank you to WP101 for being a Post Status partner.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Today, we answer questions from Post Status community members, who asked us all sorts of stuff on the Post Status Ask page. If you'd like to ask a question, be sure to go there and we'll see if we can answer it on a future show. Questions & Links We answered the following questions: Why WordPress? In a survey I did before my PressNomics talk, the top answer for what's important to people in regards to the WordPress world was the quality of the community. WordPress' ubiquity -- powering 26% of the web -- helps too. What is the biggest mistake you made learning WordPress? (Or, what would you do differently?) Joe and I each shared what we tend to do wrong when learning new things. We are fully on opposite ends of the spectrum. Recommended link: Just Build Websites. Also, my post on learning WordPress holds up pretty well, considering I wrote it in 2014. Why did a lot of web and WordPress people get upset about the Mandrill pricing changes, when we want people to value the work we're doing ourselves? We discuss what made Mandrill's pricing changes controversial, and why we think some level of "outcry" is understandable here. Basically, Mandrill isn't differentiated enough to warrant the new pricing, in our opinions. However, it's obviously their right to change their pricing and structure, and the questioner has a valid point in how we value other services versus our own. Why isn't the WordPress importer being worked on more intensively? Good question! We talk about the state of the importer, some other options like WP Migrate DB Pro, WP All Import, and WP CLI. We also discuss how to get involved with open source development. Should taxonomies have the same feature capabilities as posts in the future? There's been a lot of interesting work on taxonomies in the last several releases, and you can read more about some of that and find links going back from my release post for WordPress 4.4. However, we think taxonomies and posts should be different. With the introduction of term meta, it is more important to consider architectural choices well in advance. Finally, the Fields API will be interesting in how it affects customizing term edit screens. How should I use my own domains with Multisite? This turned interesting! Fortunately, Multisite component maintainer Jeremy Felt came through while we were on the show to point us to tickets that were merged in WordPress 3.9 for enabling simpler domain mapping, and in 4.3, when a better UI was introduced. So, today, it's much easier to use a custom domain in a network -- within the existing WordPress Multisite options interface -- versus using a tool like Mercator. In addition to these questions, we also banter on about some other things and answer a few less serious questions we go from funny listeners. And at the end, I make a pretty big announcement... Today’s podcast is sponsored by Design Palette Pro. Design Palette Pro makes it easy to customize pretty much any Genesis theme, without touching code. It’s perfect for when you’re helping a friend with a website, but they don’t have a full service budget and you don’t have time to custom code every element. Get a great website in no time, with Design Palette Pro. Go to GenesisDesignPro.com for more information. Thank you to the team at Reaktiv Studios, who builds Design Palette Pro, for being a Post Status partner.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Software as a service (SaaS) is often viewed as a holy grail for successful online business. The ability to generate recurring revenue that doesn’t require hours-for-dollars is attractive to most entrepreneurs. WordPress can be a helpful tool to get a lot of SaaS functionality out of the box. In today’s episode, we discuss WordPress and SaaS in two contexts: one, using WordPress as a technology basis for a SaaS in another industry, and two, creating a SaaS catered to the WordPress world. Links We mentioned the following SaaS products, and probably some others too. Happy Tables  Restaurant Engine  Event Smart  Faithmade  Varsity News Network  Rainmaker  WordPress.com  OptinMonster  iThemes Sync  WP Remote  Akismet VaultPress  Today’s podcast is sponsored by WP Migrate DB Pro by Delicious Brains, the tool that makes syncing your databases effortless. Check out WP Migrate DB Pro and all their other great products on their website.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. WordPress hosting is always a hot topic of conversation, due to the difficult task of differentiating one host from another. There is also a lot of money and marketing involved in the industry -- an industry that includes some of the largest companies in the WordPress ecosystem. In this episode, Joe and I attempt to break down what different types of hosting are available, how they are applicable to WordPress, and even dig in to some of the drama and politics that surround the hosting world. The techical part of the conversation is the first 50 minutes or so, and around that mark, we get into the politics and non-technical issues around WordPress hosting, as well as tell some stories of how companies have successfully marketed themselves by getting embedded in the WordPress community. Links Review Signal is a great resource for comparing hosting. The 2015 Review Signal WordPress hosting review is a nice guide. WordPress recommended hosting page is a source of a number of questions. We talk about a lot of different hosting companies during this episode. Just Google them. This episode is sponsored by one of our great partners, Prospress. Check out Prospress's Post Status profile, as well as their website. They are the makers of the excellent WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin, amongst other helpful products.

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. HTTPS and HTTP/2 are somewhat intertwined, and a lot has been going on lately in this realm. Google has made a big push to encourage the use of SSL for websites -- including making it a search ranking factor -- and LetsEncrypt and other services are offering new ways to deliver free SSL certificates, securely. And HTTPS is required for HTTP/2, which is making a big splash as well, quickly outpacing SPDY. Today, we’ll talk about what these terms are, and what it means for the web and for WordPress. Links Let's Encrypt The Future Stack: Running WordPress with Tomorrow's Technologies OAuth HTTP/2 FAQs WordPress and HTTP/2 Software and services supporting HTTP/2 Transitioning from SPDY to HTTP/2 HTTP/2 and You Introducing HTTP/2 You're Listening to Delilah

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Today, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress in the “enterprise," starting with a discussion on what the enterprise even is. We discuss WordPress’s value to the enterprise, and what enterprise level companies are looking for in their technology solutions. The conversation turns into conspiracy theories and joking around by the 50 minute mark, so don’t be intimidated by the hour and fifteen minute timestamp. Links Quartz is an API What is Code? Make WordPress Marketing

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. Joe and Brian were joined by Ryan McCue, the Lead Developer of the REST API, Daniel Bachhuber, a contributing developer to the REST API, and K.Adam White, Aaron Jorbin, and Jack Lenox — each with unique experiences using the REST API. They discussed the talks from A Day of REST, but also about the impact of the new API more broadly as well. If you’re at all interested in the REST API, this is an excellent round table to listen to. Links A Day of Rest Post Status summary of the conference and links to slides Photo credit: Aaron Jorbin

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week, they talk working in an agency and doing client work. Joe and Brian discussed a variety of facets to agency and client work, including: Hourly billing, daily billing, and project billing Tracking time for internal or external purposes Pricing websites Taking on large versus small projects in both large and small agencies, and how risk changes in each scenario Making payroll and managing cashflow Being selective with clients Retainers and monthly maintenance plans, and how it can fit in Team structures for projects And more!

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and Brian Krogsgard. In this episode of Draft, Joe and Brian discuss the biggest stories of 2015 and look forward to predict where the WordPress world will go in 2016. Topics and Links Stories of 2015 Changes in lead developers A move to active installs Forced plugin updates become a thing Comments / The Trojan Emoji Hunting vulnerabilities in WordPress core WordPress zero day vulnerability patched Acquisition(s) #wpdrama, Thesis edition Rest API everywhere JavaScript What to expect in 2016 REST API put to the test / endpoints to core Remkus de Vries's "Learning JavaScript In WordPress, Deeply" JavaScript for WP A Day of Rest More companies growing up (getting bigger, acquisitions) More hosted service MOAR JAVASCRIPT Theming will change Auto updates become more prevalent

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle -- the CTO of Human Made -- and myself. In this episode, Joe and I interview Scott Taylor, who works at The New York Times, is a WordPress Core Committer, and has lead the release of WordPress 4.4. We discuss dig into many WordPress 4.4 features, the thinking behind them, what it's like to lead a release, and core development in general. We also talked about WordCamp US, where we recorded the podcast from, including Scott's experience speaking during the State of the Word. After the interview with Scott, Joe and I dig more into the State of the Word and WordCamp US in general. The interview with Scott is first and Joe and I switch to WCUS and the State of the Word around 37 minutes in. Helpful links Scott's website WordPress 4.4 field guide (reference for new features) WordCamp US website State of the Word summary and video